{"id":98,"date":"2018-04-24T14:07:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T14:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/?page_id=98"},"modified":"2023-02-11T21:59:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T21:59:23","slug":"robert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/robert\/","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Gives Students of Color a Voice Through Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-98-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/04\/Robert_JamarJ.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/04\/Robert_JamarJ.mp3\">https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/04\/Robert_JamarJ.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>By Robert Simmons<\/strong><br \/>\nAsk Jamar Jones what movie made him want to be a filmmaker and he lights up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndiana Jones and The Last Crusade. You could ask my parents. Indiana freakin\u2019 Jones. First of all, he had my last name. Now, I wonder if we were related. [It] inspired me to want to know how to create that adventure,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-378\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-378\" src=\"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/04\/Jamar_Jones_As_Indiana_Jones-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/04\/Jamar_Jones_As_Indiana_Jones-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/04\/Jamar_Jones_As_Indiana_Jones-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/04\/Jamar_Jones_As_Indiana_Jones-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/04\/Jamar_Jones_As_Indiana_Jones-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/04\/Jamar_Jones_As_Indiana_Jones-1080x810.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/04\/Jamar_Jones_As_Indiana_Jones.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration by Sylvia Li.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jones\u2019 crusade to become a filmmaker, CEO of Six Point Productions, and founder of Filmmakers Meet-up in Baltimore, Maryland, started with him stealing his father\u2019s video camera to make stop motion films in elementary school and became a passion for creating narratives.<\/p>\n<p>During his time at Morgan State University, he discovered the power of film when he got an opportunity to create a documentary about his neighborhood, Park Heights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was terrible, but I got a standing ovation because we focused on stories that I felt were untold of people that look like me from my area where I grew up in Park Heights and with the issues that they were dealing with,\u201d Jones reflected.<\/p>\n<p>Jones now has a studio space in Carrollton Heights where he hosts a program called Filmmaker\u2019s Meet-up, an experiential learning program and network for young people of color to learn filmmaking through producing films for local organizations. Having experienced numerous setbacks as an African American filmmaker himself, Jones hopes to help more students of color to enter the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve worked on hair commercials for Black people and there was not one black person that created the story, that was running it or even behind the camera. So how do you explain that? This is an expanded network where you make connections here and you can stay a part of this, where you can reach back into for assistance or to be a mentor. I didn&#8217;t have this. I&#8217;ve never had a mentor. You know. And I just never had those things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Through re-creating, and improving upon, his own adventure to becoming a filmmaker, Jones\u2019 ultimate goal is to give young people of color in Baltimore the opportunity to control their own narratives and have a voice through film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Simmons Ask Jamar Jones what movie made him want to be a filmmaker and he lights up. \u201cIndiana Jones and The Last Crusade. You could ask my parents. Indiana freakin\u2019 Jones. First of all, he had my last name. Now, I wonder if we were related. [It] inspired me to want to know &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/robert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Filmmaker Gives Students of Color a Voice Through Film&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":372,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}